December 04, 2012

a plan would have helped

Things I learned on this upcycled jacket project:- how much I like working with wool- how much I dislike working with leather- that's its fun to work on something when you don't have to worry about ruining expensive fabric- that a plan or a sketch would have made things easier...maybeSince I had the completed button leather front, this jacket was a kind of reverse construction. No plan or pattern, I just started cutting fabric and piecing it in.This is where I am ending for the day.I have one sleeve set and some how I guessed correctly when I was cutting it.Next up, I will make a collar from the tweed and add a leather band at the sleeve cuff.And I still have to block the leather and steam the wool just a bit.

Still not sure what to do with the bottom edge. I will probably just hem it up as I am out of the leather and the tweed.It would have been nice to have enough to do some sort of peplum, even with piecing scraps there isn't enough.I will leave the hem until the last and maybe something will come to me.